Welcome to Stop! Needlework Time ("we," "our," or "the website"), available at https://www.stop1time.com/. We publish cross-stitch patterns, needlework inspiration, and embroidery-related tutorials. This policy explains what information may be processed when you use our website, why that happens, and the choices available to you.
1. Information we receive
When you visit our website, our hosting platform and services used on the site may process technical information such as your IP address, browser and device type, pages visited, referring pages, approximate location derived from technical data, and the time of your visit. This information may be used for operation, security, troubleshooting, and service performance.
If you voluntarily contact us or leave a comment using an available website feature, the information you choose to provide may be processed to respond to you or operate that feature. Please avoid posting sensitive personal information in public comments.
2. Blogger and Google services
Our website is hosted on Blogger, a Google service. Google may process information necessary to provide, secure, and maintain its services. Learn more in Google's Privacy Policy and How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
3. Advertising and Google AdSense
This website is configured to use Google AdSense. Depending on the website's advertising status and your location and consent choices, Google and other advertising technology providers may serve advertisements.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies and other identifiers to serve ads based on previous visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's advertising cookies enable Google and its partners to show ads based on visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
- Advertising providers may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, and similar technologies to display, measure, and help protect advertisements.
- You can manage Google's personalized advertising settings at My Ad Center. You can also learn about certain industry opt-out choices at YourAdChoices.
For more information, see Google's advertising technologies explanation. Advertising partners may have their own privacy policies and choices.
4. Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies and similar technologies can be used to operate the website, remember preferences, measure performance, prevent misuse, and support advertising. You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Some features may not work as intended if you disable necessary cookies.
Where required, consent for non-essential cookies and personalized advertising should be requested through the consent controls displayed on the website. For information specific to visitors covered by European data protection rules, see our GDPR Privacy Policy.
5. Third-party websites and free patterns
Some articles link to third-party pattern designers, publishers, videos, or download pages. When you follow an external link, the destination website may collect information under its own privacy policy. We do not control those third-party websites or their data practices. Please review their privacy notices before submitting information or downloading files.
6. Data retention and security
We keep information we directly receive only as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was provided, subject to applicable requirements. Information processed by Blogger, Google, or other third-party services is subject to those providers' own retention practices. No transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.
7. Children's privacy
Stop! Needlework Time is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. We do not intentionally request personal information from children under 13 through our own content. If you believe a child has provided personal information through a feature we control, please contact us so we can review the request.
8. Your privacy choices and rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, or other controls over personal data. Some requests involving Google services must be submitted directly to Google. Residents of the EEA, UK, or other covered regions can find additional information in our GDPR Privacy Policy.
9. Contact
For questions about this policy or privacy requests concerning information controlled by the website operator, please use the contact method published on our website. Site owner: please add a working contact-page link or monitored email address here before publishing.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as site features, service providers, or legal requirements change. The date at the top of this page indicates the most recent update.